ethics

"Some virtues are only seen in affliction and some in prosperity."

"The prescriptions and proscriptions held by members of a role set are designated as role expectations. ... The role expectations held for a certain person by some member of his or her role set will re…"

"I am speaking of those years before the middle class took professional wrestling away from the working class and made of our morality play a mockery of ambition."

"Henceforth, virtue was not the exercise of discipline, self-control or benevolence for the sake of others, but the expression of the right opinions of the moment."

"Every place is given its character by certain patterns of events that keep on happening there.... These patterns of events are locked in with certain geometric patterns in the space. Indeed, each buil…"

"We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practise, and another which we practise but seldom preach."

"All great characters in stories are the ones who give their lives to something bigger than themselves. And in all of the stories I don't find anyone more noble than Jesus."

"If Taiwan wants to join international organizations, it must return to the fundamental condition, which is recognition of the 'One China Principle' and the '1992 consensus'."

"Burton did not believe in miracles. Nothing happened that could not be explained by physical principles — if you knew all the facts."

"hy should we divide the sensitive principle which thinks in man? ...For a thing that is divided can no longer without absurdity be regarded as indivisible."

"The genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems and cur…"

"I’m a showman. I believe that you’re a character every time you put on clothes. Tomorrow I may be another in hoops and tight jeans and a bomber. Clothes, to me, or wardrobe express characters."

"I am not advocating a morality based on evolution. I am saying how things have evolved. I am not saying how we humans morally ought to behave."

"He was sure there must be some catch. Every principle here had an opposite, and both were wrong."

"We do not become righteous by doing righteous deeds but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds."

"I take goodness in this sense, the affecting of the weal of men, which is that the Grecians call philanthropia; and the word humanity is a little too light to express it. Goodness I call the habit, an…"

"Our media are completely lost in a wilderland of moral equivalence, eagerly prostituting themselves to monsters and terrorists."

"I have done no passably decent job in this world which did not at first seem to me useless - absurdly useless, useless to the point of nausea. My secret demon is called :What's the use?"

"If the principle is, "Let's not get lethal substances out to the public", the first one you'd go after is tobacco. The next one you'd go after is alcohol. Way down the list you'd get to cocaine, and s…"

"When the decision was finally made to accept blacks as full citizens, the founders' principles provided the theoretical foundation. Lincoln's revival of the declaration in the 1850s had prepared the w…"